Academy : A Public Space

Elizabeth Gaffney | The Novel Workshop

Brooklyn, NY • Tuesdays, September 10–December 17

**This class is sold out. If you would like to be added to the waitlist, please email Megan Cummins at megan@apublicspace.org.**

This season’s Novel Workshop is designed for writers with a substantially or fully complete draft of their novels. Each writer will have the opportunity to have their entire manuscript read and critiqued.

Mary-Beth Hughes | A Technique Workshop for Writers

Brooklyn, NY • Wednesdays, September 25–November 6

**This class is sold out. If you would like to be added to the waitlist, please email Megan Cummins at megan@apublicspace.org.**

The technique class for fiction writers is inspired by the technique classes many dancers attend throughout their dancing lives. Class time will be a chance to try new steps, rethink strategies, gather strength and agility, outside the pressures of performance

Amy Hempel | Master Class

Brooklyn, NY • Saturday, October 5

**This class is sold out. If you would like to be added to the waitlist, please email Megan Cummins at megan@apublicspace.org.**

This one-day generative Master Class will consider the questions that lead to a story.

Yiyun Li | Master Class

Brooklyn, NY • Saturday, October 12

**This class is sold out. If you would like to be added to the waitlist, please email Megan Cummins at megan@apublicspace.org.**

In this Master Class we will examine different approaches to writing about the people, places, and events that have made us who and how we are.

Daniel Handler | Master Class

Brooklyn, NY • Thursday, October 24

This Master Class will focus on reading like a writer, rather than a student or critic or fan—the better to use the literature we love for our own purposes.

Benjamin Dreyer | Master Class

Brooklyn, NY • Saturday, November 2

Benjamin Dreyer, author of the New York Times bestseller Dreyer’s English and longtime copy chief and managing editor of the Random House division of Penguin Random House, leads a Master Class in the art and practicalities of the copyediting process.

Ayana Mathis | Master Class

Brooklyn, NY • Thursday, November 14

A Master Class exploring the role of time in fiction, and a deep dive into E.M. Forster's famous adage: "In the novel, there is always the clock."

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